Apple Podcast Rankings - France - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in France

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in France. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 14 Aug 2026

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08/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 111

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:33:15

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. Making Waves (2 shows)

4. RTBF (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Ausha (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

5. Transistor (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	143	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
3	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
6	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
7	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
8	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
9	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	105	Acast	73
10	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
12	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
15	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
16	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
17	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
18	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
19	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
20	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
21	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
22	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
23	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
24	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
25	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
26	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
27	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
28	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
29	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	299	Spotify for Podcasters	32
30	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
31	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
32	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	45	Audiomeans	73
35	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
36	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
37	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
38	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
39	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
40	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
41	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
42	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
43	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
44	Armand Vaquerin, la dernière tournée	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
46	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
47	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
48	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
49	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
50	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
51	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
52	À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
53	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
54	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
56	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
57	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
58	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	64	Spotify for Podcasters	28
59	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
60	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
61	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	14	Audiomeans	68
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
63	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
64	Le Tour de France avec Sully	We Tell Stories	Society & Culture	23	Unknown	48
65	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
66	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
67	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
68	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
69	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	33	Ausha	79
70	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
71	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
72	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
73	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
74	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
75	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
76	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
77	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
78	Question Everything	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	89	Omny Studio	63
79	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
80	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
81	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
82	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
83	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
84	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
85	Solastalgie	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	16	Audiomeans	73
87	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
88	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
89	Priscille Podcast	Priscille Podcast	Society & Culture	68	Spotify for Podcasters	37
90	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
91	Tout est affaires	Outre-mer la 1ère	Society & Culture	9	Octopus	43
92	La voix des métiers	Orientation Vaud	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
93	Passeurs de Reggae	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	69
94	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	673	Acast	69
95	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
96	Les Abysses de la BIS	RSU Radio Sorbonne Université	Society & Culture	8	Acast	63
97	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
98	Greenpeace Expérience	Greenpeace France	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	79
99	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
100	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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